ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The family of a 17-year-old African-American boy shot to death last month in his gated Florida community by a white Neighborhood Watch captain wants to see the captain arrested, the family's lawyer said on Wednesday.

Trayvon Martin was shot dead after he took a break from watching NBA All-Star game television coverage to walk 10 minutes to a convenience store to buy snacks including Skittles candy requested by his 13-year-old brother, Chad, the family's lawyer Ben Crump said.

"He was a good kid," Crump said in an interview, adding that the family would issue a call for the Watch captain's arrest at a news conference on Thursday. "On his way home, a Neighborhood Watch loose cannon shot and killed him."

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Trayvon, who lived in Miami with his mother, had been visiting his father and stepmother in a gated townhome community called The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, 20 miles north of Orlando.

As Trayvon returned to the townhome, Sanford police received a 911 call reporting a suspicious person.

Although names are blacked out on the police report, Crump and media reports at the time of the shooting identified the caller as George Zimmerman who is listed in the community's newsletter as the Neighborhood Watch captain.

Without waiting for police to arrive, Crump said, Zimmerman confronted Trayvon, who was on the sidewalk near his home. By the time police got there, Trayvon was dead of a single gunshot to the chest.

"What do the police find in his pocket? Skittles," Crump said. "A can of Arizona ice tea in his jacket pocket and Skittles in his front pocket for his brother Chad."

Zimmerman could not be reached for comment on Wednesday evening at a phone number listed for him on the community's newsletter.

Crump said the family was concerned that police might decide to consider the shooting as self defense, and that police have ignored the family's request for a copy of the original 911 call, which they think will shed light on the incidents.

"If the 911 protocol across the country held to form here, they told him not to get involved. He disobeyed that order," said Ryan Julison, a spokesman for the family.

"He (Zimmerman) didn't have to get out of his car," said Crump, who has prepared a public records lawsuit to file on Thursday if the family doesn't get the 911 tape. "If he never gets out of his car, there is no reason for self-defense. Trayvon only has skittles. He has the gun."

Since Trayvon, a high school junior who wanted to be a pilot, was black and Zimmerman is white, Crump said race is "the 600 pound elephant in the room."

"Why is this kid suspicious in the first place? I think a stereotype must have been placed on the kid," Crump said.

damn....you're actually starting to piss me off! you are either a freaking idiot or a legitimate racist bitch or just simply another stupid troller…hey….you’re a mult, right? who are you really? I’ll bet you’re a frigging white guy!
Oh man, I’m rising to the troll bait….I shouldn’t….I shouldn’t…..can’t…help….it…….agggghh….

yeah sure…..all WHITE AMERICANS! good one. did you type that while eating watermelon and fried chicken? since I’m white….that’s what I think about ALL black people….right?

I guess I’m supposed to feel like I owe you something, because I’m white and you’re black? that’s the gist of what you’re saying. tell ya what, take that chip on your shoulder and shove it up your sorry ass! I don't owe you jack shit! you never wore chains and I never put them on you. so go ahead and hold a grudge against my white ass all you want. I don't give a shit. YOU are the problem in America right now…YOU. thank God I'm intelligent enough to know that all black people ain't like you.

slavery sucks. I don’t support it. I never had anything to do with it. hating me for it makes you a stupid bitch.

PS – my best friend is black.

I asked if he was a troll before but he has some other racist threads he started. I think he is actually just a legitimate racist POS.

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"You know, they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then they look at me and say, "I CAN'T PROCESS IT!" Well, no, and you never will. Stop trying. Just sit back and enjoy the show .... You know?"

There's that old excuse racists use again. The sins of your fathers will follow you. Whether you want to admit it or not. You really want to know what you owe me ? I'll tell you....blood.

I put that black best friend line there knowing it is a stale excuse for many racists.....so I thought it was kinda funny. however....in reality, two of the best friends I have....one is black the other is hispanic (mexican actually)....and I love them both. my buds since 8th grade and I'm 47. they are truly class acts, unlike you.
I don't owe you the sweat off my balls. you make me sick. I'm sure many, actually most black people would feel the same way about you. you are whiny, needy, sorry and pathetic.

PS - I really think you're just trolling and I'm playing along. I can't believe somebody could really be this stupid!

as I sit here chuckling at dickmillan, I realized that if he really spews this kind of hate in the real world, I have no doubt he is driving lesser intelligent previously un-racist (not a word is it?) white folks to racism - he is making some white idiots become white idiot racists! kind of ironic and sad. good job dickmillan.

Israel and White America. Two peas in a pod. Both stole the lands from both Palestine and the native AMERICANS.

"Evil radical Islamists"

Whatever makes you feel good, slaver.

If a person’s father was a Slave owner and their mother was a slave, does that make you oppressed or an oppressor? If my great great grandfather died fighting to free the slaves and one of your ancestors sold to the slave trade don’t you owe me $5.00? Being white no more automatically makes a person a bigot than being black has prevented you from being an idiot.